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Salamander is pleased to unveil MooD SOA - an enterprise architecture tool that gives traceability from business strategy processes into SOA development. It ensures that SOA services and systems are architected with the right characteristics to contribute to business strategy - all within a process that is intended to be iterative with, but decoupled from, the underlying SOA implementation platform. It moves the centre of gravity of an SOA adoption from the IT platform to the business strategy.

MooD sits clearly on top of the Technology Stack delivering Planning, Strategy and Control as well as Architecture Design and Service Orchestration.

MooD SOA in the Technology Stack

MooD SOA in the Technology Stack

MooD SOA is now available via a subscription license. This means that projects can acquire the tools necessary for a specific piece of work without the need for large up front costs. This licensing model will allow you to flexibly deploy MooD on a per project basis. For longer programmes, MooD SOA is still available with a perpetual licence.

Why MooD SOA?

You may have always been a loyal customer of a particular supplier. You have always bought their technology stack so when SOA became popular you bought that as well. As the slogan goes "nobody ever got fired for buying from them!". Times have changed however, and we are aware that many organizations have started to question the value of this technology approach to SOA.

The answer is not to start from scratch. SOA still offers huge potential benefits to your business in terms of agility to respond to business drivers, quickly innovating with new product & service offerings.

Your business shouldn't be constrained by the technical limits of your SOA platform. Instead you should be in control, creating SOA environments that deliver long term business value.

With our new product - MooD SOA - we believe that we have created the world’s first business-driven SOA tool. For the first time SOA execution will be closely linked to strategy. This will enable you to firstly create a vision and then design and implement an SOA environment that is based on your business requirements rather than the IT capabilities of your vendor.

So how does it all fit together?

Readiness and assessment should take place as soon as an organization has decided to assess the potential for SOA; the persistent nature of the tool means that this can be reviewed periodically or before major decision points. In the interim, an organization will develop an SOA roadmap and manage its adoption. As the adoption is planned and managed, MooD SOA provides the ability to ensure that services and systems are architected with the right characteristics to contribute to business strategy.

In Collaboration with Everware CBDI

Following the earlier successful pairing of Salamander's MooD technology with Everware CBDI's Service Architecture & Engineering™ (CBDI-SAE™) meta model, a compelling business driven SOA tool was created.

In using this powerful combination of technology and know-how, for the first time SOA execution will be directly linked to your business strategy, rather than being embedded in your IT. MooD will enable you to take control, designing and implementing SOA environments that are based on your business requirements, instead of the IT capabilities of your vendor.

Designed for business managers, business architects, service architects and solution architects, MooD SOA enables full-lifecycle service architecture planning, governance, testing and deployment as a solution to achieving SOA goals.

MooD combines the ability to build and exploit architectures, define and manage change programmes, increase performance and create business intelligence solutions - all based on a common Enterprise Business Model. MooD 2008 includes MooD Business Orchestration, uniquely weaving SOA methodology into the Enterprise Architecture through business drivers.

The MooD Service Architecture Sampler implements concepts in the CBDI-SAE™ Meta Model for SOA, to provide support for the CBDI-SAE™ approach in MooD in the following areas:

  • Service identification, and the association of Services to corresponding business concepts in the business model such as business capabilities and business processes, also including support for Business Type Modelling
  • The modelling of Layered Service Architectures designed to ensure flexibility and encourage sharing, showing the relationships between services, with support for specification, implementation and deployment views of the Service Architecture
  • Detailing rich Service Specifications to provide the necessary communication to both service developers and solution assemblers
  • SOA Governance including the ability to run diagnostics to ensure that SOA policies are complied with in the model, for example policies that ensure the integrity of the service architecture
  • Platform-independent testing and simulation of services and orchestrations through interaction with major vendor SOA technologies prior to development and deployment
Dr Simon Smith, Chief Architect

Dr Simon Smith, Chief Architect

David Sprott, vice president Everware-CBDI and CEO of Everware-CBDI International, says: "Despite much talk, the industry has not yet delivered comprehensive support for advanced SOA that governs the entire life cycle from business to operational management.

"The MooD platform is genuinely groundbreaking - its automation of CBDI-SAE™ integrates the business, service specification and technical perspectives in a manner that can deliver on the SOA vision."

Dr Simon Smith, Salamander's chief architect, says: "Many organizations mistakenly adopt a technology-centric view of SOA. Working with CBDI-SAE™ ensures a business-driven approach where the service architecture is designed to align with business objectives, rather than one dictated by the technology infrastructure and existing applications."

Get Involved!

It is our experience that users of MooD Business Orchestration find that they have much to share, and enjoy interaction with other users; the desire to meet and exchange observations and experiences is however constrained and, notwithstanding engagement in a number of forums, we have decided to create an online community around getting the best from the tooling.

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